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Celtic may seek compensation from the Scottish Football Association should they appoint Tommy Burns as Scotland manager on a permanent basis. Martin O’Neill, the Celtic manager, was quoted last week as backing Burns, but has now emphasised he was not representing his board’s view of the head of youth development at Parkhead.

‘I first thought that Tommy would only be doing it in the interim,’ said O’Neill. ‘Obviously things have hurtled on at quite a rate since then to the point where now Tommy is in contention (for the job). I’ve been quoted as saying I wouldn’t stand in his way, well it’s alright for a manager to say I wouldn’t stand in his way without giving it a great deal of thought, when in actual fact he’s got an important job here in terms of youth development. So you might have to pass that